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Pursuant to the Alaska Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

-The current memorandum of agreement (MOA) or memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Defense Logistics Agency, Disposition Services regarding the 1033 equipment surplus program administered by the DLA Law Enforcement Support Office

-The annual inventory form required to be completed by MSP by the state coordinator of the 1033 program

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Please remove my name/email address from any future inquiries about the State of Alaska 1033 Program. I am no longer employed by the Alaska Department of Public Safety and so have no current responsibility for the State of Alaska 1033 Program.

If you are requesting information from the Alaska State Troopers you will need to complete the attached form and mail it to the Department of Public Safety's Commissioner's Office. The address is on the form. Thank you very much.

As requested, I've filled out the form (see attached). Please confirm whether it is necessary for a mailed copy to be sent, as well, under Alaska's public records law. I would respectfully ask that my request be accepted as emailed, if possible

Thank you for sending the MOA and the 1033 transfer data. This is a request for the full 1033 equipment transfer data to the agency level for all transfers -- more than a dozen state coordinators have released their state property book spreadsheet without any redaction. See, for instance, the attached spreadsheets released by the state coordinators in Ohio, Arizona and Iowa.

Checking on this once again. To be clear, I do not consider this request to be closed. Please let me know if the below is your final response, and if I need to submit an appeal to move the request forward.

To be clear, my request is for the full agency-by-agency inventory spreadsheet as released by more than 25 state coordinators of the 1033 program. The spreadsheet released by your office on August 21 does not include agency information for all transfers. As such, I do not consider my request fulfilled.

If the above constitutes your final response to my request, I consider my request to have been unduly rejected, particularly since your office did not provide any legal justification under the Alaska public records statute for withholding agency information for particular transfers. Please confirm whether this is the case, as well as the appropriate appeals authority to which I ought to appeal this determination, as appropriate.

To the best of my knowledge and our records no other agency in Alaska, except for AST has any 1033 property at this time. The North Pole PD turned in all their patrol rifles received from the program and the Anchorage PD did not receive any equipment from the program. Thank you.

A number of the above departments are not accounted for in the spreadsheet you've provided that breaks down equipment by agency. Furthermore, the county-by-county portion of the spreadsheet indicates that agencies in the following counties received tactical equipment:

Checking in on this once again. Please let me know if I can provide any further clarification as to the spreadsheet I am requesting -- again, 28 states now have released nearly identical "property book" spreadsheets that list agency-by-agency 1033 equipment transfers.

Thank you for the clarification. Please confirm whether you have a full copy of the property book spreadsheet that lists all equipment without the distinction of general versus tactical. If so, please send a copy.

Can you confirm whether the audit inventory documents sent (attached) were complete? Again, there were no pages for that seem to correspond to departments in the following counties that DLA inventories indicated had received 1033 equipment:

Everyone,The inventory sheets sent to you were prepared by the Defense Logistics Agency and they would be best to inquire as to how the list is compiled and where they conduct the actual physical inventory count.

I do not have access to the complete wide inventory at this time since DLA is not recognizing me as an authenticated user based on a security issue between DPS and LESO. This is a computer glitch that has not been resolved to date.

Respectfully, as 1033 state coordinator administrator for the state, I presume that you are aware as to the procedure for conducting the inventory, and that you and/or Col. Cockrell have a copy of the outcome spreadsheets to verify whether the documents provided to me were comprehensive.

Please advise as to whether you have provided me with the comprehensive documentation of the August LESO audit, and in particular whether all departments with 1033 equipment are included in the documents provided.

Mr. Musgrave,You have the entire inventory conducted in August by DLA/LESO for the State of Alaska. The departments listed on the inventory sheet are the only areas where LESO conducted physical inventory counts.